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With all the hate on the new codex, I would like to offer a differing opinion.

The Nids can give any and every MC they have Fleet due to adrenal Glands. That is awesome. Really really awesome. the new heavy with its 6 s7 ap2 shots as bs 4. yes please! that will be good for shooting at those darn riptides. same with hive guard. Our Flyer is BAD, our Tyrant is GOOD. The +1s +3 int +Life leach (aka distort) Sword is actually pretty nice except for the points.

Carnifexes with fleet furious charge and regen will run 165 points. not terrible not great. Second though. Pretty great.

Mawlocks got way better. In pure killing power they don't seem that impressive. Consider the ability they have to remove units from objectives. Also I believe mawlock sniping will be a thing (at least I am doing it!!!). The mawlock uses the same rules as barrage, so consider a large number of hits on a unit with a beefy character. even if you don't land straight on his head not much lives through S6 AP2 ignores cover. If not enough stuff died we rinse, lather, then repeat! fantastic stuff from that unit.

Our psycic powers got forked over to the dice gods. so did everyone who has a 6th codex. no Iron arm from biomancy is annoying, but then again a T9 tyrant was a bit silly too.

warriors are still bad, except for the fact that you can give them fleet. Also I have not seen the rules for synapse yet. So I am still holding out for eternal warrior. (nope not getting it)

Raveners Loosing rending claws is not true. you just gotta buy em. cheap points.

the price reduction on hormas/termis is awesome in my mind. I usefully field at least 30 so that frees up 30 points to spend on upgrades! YAY points. this also allows our allies detachment to be incredibly cheap on points. starting at 160 points to unlock and extra +Heavy, Fast and Elite. (IGNORE ME, they can not ally with themselves). Drat I was trying to be accurate

Also no one is talking about the upgrade to make it so the tervigon can't stop producing more units. Though to be fair you give up TONS of victory points in competitive play with those things (when used all the time).

Anyways I am a bit sad they did not introduce any new special characters, I would have loved to see some kinda trygon. also maybe a BIG trygon. To go toe to toe with the eldar wraithnight. Would have been cool.

Either way out of all the new models. All I want is an Exocrine. I think one of each of exocrine, trygon and mawlock will be so strong.

to 3++ is the new black if you want to find the spanish codex. at least shots of bunches of it. this is where I am getting most of my information. As well as google translate.

You might want to take this over the the N&R thread:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/567025.page

I will re post it there, but I was trying to start a discussion. : D

Thanks for the heads up though. If I am allowed I would still like to see where this thread takes us.

 Thrawn2600 wrote:
the new heavy with its 6 s7 ap2 shots as bs 4.

....The what now?....

 alanmckenzie wrote:

 Thrawn2600 wrote:
the new heavy with its 6 s7 ap2 shots as bs 4.

....The what now?....

The Exocrine can fire 6 S7 AP2 shots or 1 S7 AP 2 large blast at BS4 if it doesn't move. It's 24", but it's more AP2 than in the previous book.

places are saying if it sits still it gets +1 BS.